Elon Musk’s politics cost his firm Tesla more than one million EV sales, report reveals

Like Joseph Smith and L Ron Hubbard.

round-based telescope exposures are being ruined right now. Negative externalities abound.

I can't help but think we could have done it with a reasonable number of sats. we put so many up it was like it was just a flex to make spacex profitable

Musk can shoot whatever he wants into orbit. He even shot up one of his shitty cars.

The rules of this game need a major rewrite.

He bought Twitter to help Trump win and Trump won.

Fucking complicit ass media

Then the typical idiots posting "salutes" by democrats.

oMg..DeMs aRe nAzIs

Damn aspies and their sieg heil pass!

That was probably what tipped the scale over. So he's african, but i think he's one of the good ones it seems.

For a while, I saw them all over the fucking place, probably 50 on my commute.

Same. Almost 1 in 3 cars that I saw, at one point, was a Tesla (in certain areas).

They're still around, but definitely not nearly as many.

I wonder where they all are now.

scrapyards. impossible to fix, written off by insurance for minor crashes. GREEN.

only in US.

For as long as Musk has been in the picture, he has been a walking red flag inferno. "I bought it before he went crazy!" Dude, it has been so clear from the beginning he's crazy, you're just ignorant AF.

People are so stupid. Even when I told them he is crazy they try to defend the guy. Only now they come with these dumb bumper stickers as they cannot find ways to defend him anymore, so they try to cover their ass with a fucking sticker.

they believe everything he says, and they tell each other how awesome he is...because... they did some bullshit business degree and have no clue how anything in STEM works.

Jim was on CBS Sunday morning recently and they showed clips of Tommy boy

unlike rescue submarines, traffic tunnels, hyperloop, Mars landers, electric semi trucks, his penis, tesla ventillators, FSD....

And yet that's all he shall ever be remembered as. The moment he's dead, make sure every statue, plaq and memorial he tries having built is rusted always by some magical compound that rhymes with peach

you mean asshole.

That was happening for a bit early this year, then, I shit you not, they committed resources and personnel to a "Tesla Task Force." to protect their best boy's little stonks.

The sad thing is, a majority of victims of this property damage would probably be too smoothbrained to understand why their choice of wagon is controversial.

I remember people on Nextdoor (LOL I know) being like "Why's this happening people are so mean and hateful :("

I showed them the famous musk heil photo to explain the phenomenon, and the copium and whattaboutism denial response was insane. "hE's NoT a NaZi JuSt BcUz U dOnT LiKe HiM nUh-Uh"

(One legit tried the "throwing out his heart" defense LOL)

I was pretty calm and respectful in explaining the situation but the comment got moderated, meanwhile these braindead suburbanites were engaged in a feverish goon session about how people who keyed their cars should literally be killed in response. No intervention whatsoever.

It's amazing how the bad guys are propped up by untold multitudes of morons who have literally no idea what's going on about anything. Their sole identity is the things they own, and they'd gladly report their neighbors to ICE for a head pat.

But they would legit be confused as to why they draw ire or retribution with their choices because they "Don't get involved with politics."

He met every last milestone for the previous compensation package everyone called utterly ridiculous and unachievable last time, so I wouldn't count against it, even if no one deserves that much compensation for meeting those goals.

And at least the first couple aren't that hard to reach in the time span provided. The annualized growth to meet them isn't high, and the payout just for that is also ridiculous

There are pilot programs from several vendors. Waymo May have the biggest but it’s unscalable. Tesla is growing and if they succeed will scale massively. There are several smaller ones

But what they have in common is

• all have shortcomings
• None are generally available
• each are individually approved for limited scope - there’s no legal framework to make them generally available
• none are even on a path to a profitable business model

Tesla has a huge advantage in scalability. If they can succeed, they will quickly scale out to the biggest.

A lot of people believe Waymo is closer to achieving self-driving, since their pilots are more established, but they are not scalable. They’re not ready to mass produce vehicles nor can they do so at a cost that could be profitable